Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Tappet, Coherence Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1020
• Professor: John Thorp

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We re not talking about truth in the sense of giving list of what beliefs are true. Were asking what it is for a belief to be true, in what does truth exist: the simple answer: correspondence. Obviously, for a belief to be true, it has to correspond to reality. For example: my belief that; the monkey is on the carpet is true , if, the monkey is on the carpet. Russell thinks though: my mind, idea of monkey, idea of caroet, idea of spatial relaitionship between monkey and carpet, outside world, real monkey, real carpet, real relationship between monkey and carpet. What exactly is it that is true or false here: but of course my belief is true (or false) only if the belief is true (or false) My belief is a private, internal thing, belonging to me, one of the contents of my mind.